Re: Updated XML patch

Here is an updated updated XML patch. Unless there are objections of
the sort that this approach is totally wrong or there is crash
potential, I'd like to get this committed this week and fill in the
gaps next year.

Old News:

> Attached is an updated patch for XML functionality, which subsumes
> all earlier patches on the subject. This includes a data type with
> format checking, and functions to mangle values. For the moment, I
> have cut out the inessential stuff such as xpath. The included
> regression test file xml.sql shows some of the things that work.
>
> This patch already covers most of the parser work. What is left
> hereafter is adjusting all the corner cases, the escaping rules, and
> the various XML parser behaviors.
>
> Use configure --with-libxml to build.

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Peter Eisentraut
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